Florida voting rules were the unkindest cut of all

Saturday

Nov 24, 2012 at 12:01 AM

For those who say “we were robbed” this election — I agree.

By GLENN JONES

YOUNGSTOWN For those who say “we were robbed” this election — I agree.

Robbed by a supermajority of Republicans in the Florida Legislature who wasted taxpayers’ valuable money and time crafting 11 amendments voters endured like a dental visit gone bad. An amendment experience as easy to understand as Greek algebra.

Disenfranchised voters (mostly working poor) were robbed by the very top of our Florida food chain. Executive actions were calculated to dissuade minority districts with impossible lines, fewer means to count votes and a refusal to keep extended early voting days for the 99 percent. Florida election results speak for themselves; it can’t be spun as a success, even by Fox News. More affluent neighborhoods never seem to experience this type of voting hell, do they Governor?

Republicans would be howling like bloodhounds if they were dragged over this cactus of fraud, yet Democrats glumly take it on the chin, again, as if we all actually expected another caning behind the GOP’s wood pile. Where are our patriot tough guy lawyers when yet another presidential election was nearly stolen?

Gov. Scott should be the subject of a criminal investigation. Instead he is a guest politician on Comedy Central. Every Florida voter in 2012 was cast as a chump by Scott and his ultra-wealthy friends. Foolish indeed, to think this wasn’t another Karl Rove monkey business strategy to bum rush 2012 — just like 2000. We ordered an election, we got a crime scene.

Gov. Scott refuses to comply with important mandates concerning health care reform, because he is clearly above federal laws… in fact any law, except that of this now rotting banana republic.

What’s next, Governor? Secede from the Union? Coin our own money? Return to Jim Crow days? Picture the new Florida half-lemon coin — one side bitter peel, the other features billionaire Gov. Scott as Caesar.

Senior citizen, lend me your ear! Don’t forget that prior to his current office, Scott ran a company that was sued by the federal government for Medicaid fraud, resulting in 14 felony convictions. A $600 million judgment against Columbia HCA, yet Caesar himself slipped away “scot free.” A fully charged battery of mercenary lawyers celebrated all the justice money can buy. One “get out of jail” card, sir, served up on a silver tray. Hail Caesar!

Scott should have been behind bars, not getting served at one, then and now.

Yes, friends, voters and countryman, our election process has been thrown to the lions by a phony electoral system. Pillaged by crooked district lines, outgunned by secretive big money corporations and special interests.

For that local 71 percent of Republicans who didn’t vote for Obama, please consider providing a more substantive candidate with better ideas on the next go round. Perhaps 2016 is when I will punch a hanging chad for the Greedy Ol’ Party. Six hours after polls close I will join that millionaire monkey business elite and say “let Rome burn.”

It all boils down to this: Remember when the Republican Party actually cared about all Americans? Neither do I.